Integrated voice control in RR...

I found voice control to be a nice complement to car computing, I found if very useful and fairly accurate for the most part but I was running into limitations with adding commands and keeping focus on the apps I was trying to control from ones that I have tried. So I created one so I could modify as needed and made it very flexible for other apps. I made it so it would load a different command sets for the different apps and sets focus on apps it does not have api access too. Nothing hardcoded but some system commands (open CD, time and date, etc.)

Anyways I wrote it in VB6 to possibly integrate it with RR since that turned out to be the front end of choice for me - Thanks Guino. Well that day came and I integrated a simple version of it and since RR is capable of sending commands to other apps it works well in the simple form.

It can easily be modified to add for any commands RR can send and there is a SendKey function to send alphanumeric for text input and edit commands so you can add other sendkey commands but striped everything else for now. I added two indicators one for !MIC_ENABLED one and one for !ONCOMMAND for visual aid in the skin. There is a hotkey to trigger command mode - currently it is F10

kth

Highlights:
* Supports most Road Runner Commands
* Support for Destinator
* Support for FreeDrive
* Support for MapPoint
* Support for iGuidance
* Support for PhoneControl.NET - thank you zorro!
* Support for XM and Sirus
* Configurable greeting and randomized replies
* hotkey to use as the keyword - currently is F10

Here is a MS tool to backup and restore Speech Profiles. It maybe possible to transfer from home to car, but I don't know how sensitive it would be on using a different Mic or different acoustics of home versus car.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

05-02:
added standby/hibernation back in
added doevents while speaking to avoid hesitations

Wow, this works great!!! I like it a lot!
Oh, the computer is really chatty too...
Thanks a lot whodwho! Awesome!

One thing though. Once you press hide, you can't bring it back up, and it gets a lot of false commands (like "bless you" or "excuse you" - nice add), so there should be a button (maybe integrated in RR, or a short cut key) to enable and siable it. I think mute/unmute the mic is the easiest around this.

You can change the "chatty" when you get tired of it by changing the 'repeat' option in the voices.ini file

You can play with the sensitivity adjustments in the speech properties in control panel to adjust pronunciation sensitivity and accuracy versus speed. I have mine at 3/4 each.

You can delete those out of the keyword.xml and recompile, it was just to show you could add speak entries there. You will find what will help with false recognition is to not use short commands they are more susceptible.

If you hide the window you can say "system show yourself" and the window should pop backup. There is a button command to add to your skin that will enable/disable called 'MIC' could add one for show/hide the window as well.

Mute will mute the response but the microphone is still active and should allow you to say mute again to unmute, let me know if that is not the case.